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VMware vCenter Server VCSA Remote Code Execution Exploited in the wild – VMSA-2021-0010 CVE-2021-21985
As a reminder to everyone and the danger of having unpatched systems, it is sobering to hear that the vCenter Server vulnerability tracked as CVE-2…
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Add NAS to VMware ESXi with StarWind SAN & NAS Free
Recently StarWind release a totally free SAN and NAS appliance that allows quickly spinning up a storage appliance based on various types of storag…
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Copy VMware Workstation VM to ESXi: Home Lab
When it comes to building your first home lab, there is nothing wrong with starting out with VMware Workstation. Realistically, this may be all y…
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ESXi VMware Tools Update Guide
VMware tools provide a tightly integrated and fluid experience between the guest virtual machines and the VMware ESXi host. With VMware Tools, you …
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See which VMs were powered on before ESXi host went down
Have you been in a situation before where you had a standalone host go down, maybe a lab host, and after bringing everything back up, you are not sur…
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How to Manage VMware Snapshots: A Guide
They can be one of the best features in a VMware vSphere environment, or perhaps the worst, depending on how they are managed and the underst…
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Hyper-V Critical remote code execution vulnerability in May 2021 patch Tuesday
The past few months from a security perspective have been a roller coaster of zero-day vulnerabilities and critical patches that have been neede…
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Packer Build Ubuntu 21.04 for VMware vSphere
If you aren’t already using Hashicorp Packer for automating builds of the various operating systems you use in your environment, you are missing o…
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Unable to ping virtual machines even though there is network connectivity
Symptoms RDP sessions to virtual machines drop intermittently RDP sessions to virtual machines fail despite proper network connectivity When you …
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Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) for ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Upgrade
VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 contains many great enhancements that I have written about . Since Update 2 was pulled initially due to an error with the…
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VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Released for Download
Well, we have been waiting for a few weeks now for the updated release of ESXi 7.0 Update 2 to drop since the first release of ESXi 7.0 Update 2 was …
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StarWind Free NAS & SAN for VMware vSphere Released
StarWind has released a new and very exciting new solution that is based on their robust VSAN solution, called StarWind Free NAS & SAN. This so…
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Restart Management Agents ESXi Impact
Many of us have certainly been there in times past. You have a host that is not responding correctly or some other issue that is weirdly affecting a …
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VMware ESXi Passphrase and Account Lockout Configuration
Configuring password requirements is extremely important when it comes to the overall cybersecurity of your environment. VMware vSphere has the confi…
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VMware announces VMware Anywhere Workspace
There is no question that work from home initiatives are here to stay in at least some capacity or another for most organizations. Since the beginnin…
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VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 Native Key Provider Configuration
To take advantage of the data encryption features of vSphere, you need to have what is referred to as a key management server (KMS). Before the relea…
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